SUCCESS and
LONELINESS
By focusing on issues of identity and identification, I attempt to examine the feelings of doubt and discomfort which face blacks who wish to succeed in a system which is structured to deny them access. How do systems of representation, and the portrayal of success both seduce and repel? I wish primarily to give voice to the psychic spaces in which exist both hope and frustration, faith and failure, and the compromises which must be negotiated in order to survive. This allows for an examination of the psychic conflict which results in a desire to both belong to and resist a society that denies blackness even as it affirms. MICHAEL
RICHARDS
written by Allison Oddman & Esther Osmole modeled by Alexa Davy & Mwengwe Mpekansambo photographed by Helen Liu
